JAGIR KAUR

New Delhi: Former Punjab Minister and Akali Dal leader Bibi Jagir Kaur got bail on Thursday in criminal case against her teenaged daughter. Kaur was awarded a jail term for five years for subjecting her daughter to forced abortion and also for abducting her.
Kaur was accused of murdering her daughter...

Kapurthala: Four months after her arrest, former Punjab Minister Bibi Jagir Kaur was on Wednesday released on parole from Kapurthala jail, where she was lodged after being convicted of various criminal offences against her teenaged daughter.
Kaur was sentenced to five years imprisonment by a CBI court in Patiala for forcing...

New Delhi: In what may prove to be a major embarrassment for the Punjab Police, IG Prisons Jagjit Singh was caught on camera bowing before former Akali minister Bibi Jagir Kaur who is in jail for forcible abortion of her daughter.
Ironically, IG Jagjit Singh had been given the task of...

Chandigarh: Punjab Agriculture Minister Tota Singh was found guilty in a corruption case by a trial court in Mohali adjoining Chandigarh on Saturday. He has been sentenced to oneyear imprisonment and a fine of Rs 30,000.
However, Tota Singh will not be arrested till July 2 by which time he...

Chandigarh: Shiromani Akali Dal leader and former Punjab minister Bibi Jagir Kaur's application for a TV in her jail cell has been turned down by Punjab Director General of Police (Prisons) Shashi Kant. Kant had ordered an inquiry on Wednesday into reports of VIP treatment being provided to Jagir Kaur.
He...

New Delhi: The Director General (Prisons) Punjab, Shashi Kant, on Friday said that he would take strict action against all those police personnel who "stooped" to the level of touching the feet of Bibi Jagir Kaur, the former Punjab Cabinet Minister who on Friday, was charged with the murder of...

Chandigarh: Punjab police is at the centre of a controversy for giving VIP treatment to convicted minister Bibi Jagir Kaur. Some of the uniformed policemen even bowed down to touch the feet of the convicted minister.
The VIP treatment, however, did not end there. The former SGPC chief, who was last...

New Delhi: Two days after police officials were caught touching convicted minister Bibi Jagir Kaur in jail, Punjab Jail Minister SS Phillaur denied any such treatment being meted out to Kaur.
"I haven't seen the video of policemen touching Jagir Kaur's feet. How can I comment on it," said Phillaur.
Uniformed officers...

Amritsar: Radical Sikh outfit Dal Khalsa on Sunday took a dig at Punjab government for allegedly extending VVIP treatment to former minister Jagir Kaur, who is in jail for conspiring in forcible abortion and abduction in the killing of her daughter 12 years ago.
"Punjab government...

Chandigarh: Hardly a few hours after her conviction and arrest on Friday evening, former Punjab cabinet minister Jagir Kaur continued to wield political influence even as a prisoner of law.
Video footage emerging from Patiala and Kapurthala jails clearly shows that Jagir Kaur, who was convicted of criminal conspiracy and other...

Jalandhar: Bibi Jagir Kaur, a prominent Akali leader and a minister in the Punjab government, will now spend five years in jail. The former chief of the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandhak Committee has been sentenced for the forced abortion of her daughter Harpreet.
But it could have been worse. Kaur was...

Chandigarh: The special CBI court in Patiala acquitted Punjab cabinet minister and former Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) president Bibi Jagir Kaur in her daughter Harpreet Kaur's murder case on Friday but found her guilty of forcing her daughter to undergo abortion. The court sentenced Kaur to five years rigorous...

New Delhi: The special CBI court in Patiala is expected to pronounce the muchawaited verdict in the Harpreet Kaur murder case on Friday, in which Punjab cabinet minister and former SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur is the prime accused.
If the court convicts Jagir Kaur, the Opposition will seek her removal...

New Delhi: Punjab Police on Sunday registered a case against Shiromani Akali Dal candidate Bibi Jagir Kaur and 4 aides for allegedly distributing liquor to voters to influence them.
They acted on a tipoff from Congress candidate Sukhpal Singh Khera and seized a vehicle laden with 183 cases of liquor...

Chandigarh: Punjab Lokpal on Monday ordered an inquiry into complaint on 'illegal occupation' of prime government land in Kapurthala district by former SGPC chief Jagir Kaur at the alleged behest of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal.
Lokpal Justice (Retd) DS Dhaliwal directed that an inquiry officer of the rank of IG...